Water-ice and ice-cream cartridge.



PATENTED AUG. 22, 1905.

s. LUSTIG. WATER ME AND 1GB 01mm CARTRIDGE.

ATTORNEFS EILEF TI Flu EF'IILIII APPLICATION FILED 313.16, 1904.

IIEIITE f STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL LUSTIG, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO NATIONALIOEGARIITRIDGEd: NOVELTY COMPANY, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATIONOF NEW JERSEY.

WATER-MICE AND ICE-CREAM CARTRIDGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 22, 1905.

Application filed February 16, 1904. Serial No. 193,810-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL LUSTIG, a citizen of the United States,residing in Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tater-Ice and Ice-Cream Cartridges; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to lettersof reference marked theron, which form a part of this specification.

This invention consists in an article of manufacture comprising a hollowelongated holder of thin. material having a relatively large mouth or'opening at one end and its other end. closed and a filling of somesubstance which by being frozen stands in said holder converted from aliquid into a semi solid or plastic state. In use the holder iscompressed in the hand sufliciently to cause the contents to be forcedtherefrom at its open end in the same manner that the ordinarycompressible paint-tube, for instance, is manipulated to eject itscontents; but in the present instance by virtue of the above-describedpeculiar forms of holder portion and contents portion of the article thelatter is essentially differentiated from others (such as thatparticularly mentioned above, for instance) in that when. held in thehand for compression the superficial portion of the contents will softenby melting from the warmth of the hand, so that not only is adhesionbetween the latter and the walls of the holder destroyed, but a kind oflubricant formed. Thus the contents will discharge without diflicultyfrom the holder and as an incident thereto the danger of bursting theholder will be eliminated.

The invention will be found fullyillus tratcd in the accompanyingdrawings, wherein Figure 1 shows the article as held in the hand and asalready partly compressed, so that its charge or filling protrudestherefrom; and Fi 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 show modified. forms of the holderor container.

The holder or container, as above stated, is in the form of acompressible cartridge or capsule closed at one end and provided with anopening at the other end approximating in size the size of said otherend of the cartridge or capsule. The cz'irtridge or cap is formed of anyheat-conducting material-such as heavy tin-foil, soft gelatin,sheetleadin which instance the s urface thereof should be protected bysome coating which would prevent poisonous chemical action between thecontents and the lead or any other suitable COHIPIGSSiblO material. Itmay be molded or otherwise shaped into the form shown in Figs. 1, 2, and3, where such cartridge or capsule a has one end closed, as at b, andthe other end formed with an opening 0, approximating in diameter thediameter of said end. (1 in Fig. l designates the plastic frozen.contents, or such cartridge or capsule may be produced by windingspirally a strip of some such mate rial as is above referred to, (see Fig. 4, where 6 indicates a cartridge or capsule thus shaped,) in whichinstance one end. of the cartridge is formed closed, as at while theother end is open, as at g, or, again, such cartridge or capsule may beproduced by molding or casting the material used in the form of acylinder, as at h in Fig. 5, or by winding a strip of the materialspirally, as at i in Fig. 6, the closing of one end of the cylinder ineither instance being effected by first flattening the same and thenfolding it one or more times, as at y' in Figs. 5 and 6.

If desired, the open or month end of the cartridge or capsule may bestrengthened or reinforced in any suitable manner, as byfolding the edgeportion back on itself, as at 7r: in Figs. 2, 4, and 5, or by rollingsaid edge portion back on a strengtheninga'ing Z, as at m in Figs. 3 and6. The contents may be some frozen edible substance, as water-ice,ice-cream, or the like. It is usually first deposited in the holder andthen refrigerated until sufliciently hard. It will be understood that inusing the article it is held. in the hand, as shown in Fig. 1, andcompressed until some of the contents protrudes from the holder, andwhen this has been bitten. oil or otherwise removed the holder is again.com pressed, forcing out more of the contents, and so on until theholder is empty. The warmth of the hand softens up the portion of thecontents nearest the walls of the holder, destroying any adhesionbetween the contents and saidv walls, and in effect forming a lubricant,whereby the bulk of the contents is readily ejected from the holderwithout danger of bursting the latter.

I do not wish to be limited either as to the form of the cartridge orcapsule, the material used in producing the same, or in any otherparticular not hereinafter expressly set forth in the claims.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a hollow collapsible holder havingits body por tion substantially in the form of a cylinder, formedthroughout of flexible heat-conducting material of uniform thickness insaid body portion, and being open at one end and closed at the other, incombination with an SAMUEL LUSTIG.

Witnesses:

ALFRED GARTNER, JOHN IV. STEWARD.

